Evaluation committee Evaluation Committee (Panel) to meet and discuss all the candidates at ICRA Avoid COI

Awards Ceremony Announced at the ICRA Ceremony at the next IEEE conference that the recipient wants

The Motion passedwith 12 in favor, 5 opposed and 1 abstention.

MOTION (07-S-02): Pioneer award recipients will be required to give a plenary talk at the next ICRA. There was lots of discussion on this motion. An amendment as follows was discussed: An award talk should be given at the award ceremony instead of the plenary.

MOTION (07-S-02-2): Pioneer award recipients will be required to give an award talk at the award ceremony of the next ICRA. The Motion failed with 6 in favor, 9 opposed and 4 abstentions. The main motion was discussed again. An amendment that an award talk should be at an appropriate time slot of the ICRA conference with the consideration of the PC chair and the awardees was proposed.

MOTION (07-S-02-3): (Amended Main MOTION 07-S-02): Pioneer awardees will be required to give an award talk at an appropriate time slot of the ICRA conference with the consideration of the PC chair and the awardees. There were considerable discussions on this motion.MOTION (07-S-02-4): Move to call the question to close the discussion The Motion passed with 18 in favor, 1 opposed and 0 abstention.

MOTION (07-S-02-5):Amend the MOTION 01-S-02 to require Pioneer Award winners to present a talk at an appropriate time slot of the ICRA conference with the consideration of the PC chair and the awardees.The Motion passed with 9 in favor, 7 opposed and 3 abstentions.

MOTION (07-S-02-3'): (Amended Main MOTION 07-S-02): Pioneer awardees will be required to give an award talk at an appropriate time slot of the ICRA conference with the consideration of the PC chair and the awardees. The Motionfailedwith 7 in favor, 9 opposed and 3 abstention.

2.5 Treasurer Reports, Vice President for Financial Activities Report

Vice President for FAB Ian Walker and Treasurer Xiaoping Yun gave a report on 2006 Actual Financial Results, 1997-2006 Historical Financial Data, 2007 budget and new initiatives/requests. Current Key Financial Concerns are as follows:

RAS Budget remains hard to monitor in real time

Income from investments, conferences, IEL/ASPP distributions poorly known

Dynamically changing financial environment at IEEE

New algorithms for pubs distribution in place this year

New algorithm for indirect infrastructure phasing in

New algorithm for conference distribution planned

Data (particularly Xplore hits) available from IEEE, but not well exploited

Ad Hoc committee formed to study these issues

MOTION(07-S-03): Recommendation that primary consideration for 2007 â€œcarry-overâ€ funds be given to initiative proposals submitted to RAS FinCom through any of the other RAS Boards, with deadline of June 15, 2007. Further recommendation that FinCom make recommendations to AdCom, and AdCom subsequently make decisions on which proposals to fund, promptly following above date. The Motionpassedwith 18 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 abstention.

MOTION(07-S-04): Request by Transactions on Robotics move to new paper management system in 2008 - $30k The Motionpassed with 19 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstention.

MOTION(07-S-07): Transactions on Robotics requests funds to support a fifth Editor - $3.6k. The Motion passed with 19 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstention.

MOTION(07-S-08-1): Request for travel support for a Chapter and Student Branch Workshop (concurrent with ICRA 2008) for sharing best practices and developing international links - $20k. The Motion passed with 17 in favor, 0 opposed and 2 abstentions.

MOTION(07-S-08-2): Request increase in Chapter support limit from $1k/yr per chapter to $2k/yr per Chapter, and increase of overall Chapter support funds from $10k per year to $20k per year. The Motionpassed with 19 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstention.

MOTION(07-S-10): Request for $90k in 2008 for new initiative for RAS Development Initiatives Related to Mission and Membership Competitionâ€. Proposals (for projects to benefit RAS membership in general) for funds to be submitted through RAS Boards. Details of the specifications and organization of the competition to be worked out by the RAS President and Vice Presidents. To be approved by the RAS AdCom. The Motion passed with 19 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstention.

MOTION (07-S-11): To approve three Sole-Sponsorship, eight Co-Sponsorship, six Technical Co-Sponsorship and two G&A fee waivers. The Motion passed with 17 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstention.

3.4 Technical Activities

Vice President for TAB Ken Goldberg gave a report on Technical Activities.

MOTION (07-S-12):

Propose Watchlist for unresponsive TCs.

Prototyping for Robotics and Automation: Last Updated: March 12, 2006

Safety Security and Rescue Robotics: Last Updated: August 31, 2005

Underwater Robotics: Last Updated: March 5, 2006

Propose the new TC on Telerobotics.Propose Statement of Support for TCs

Technical Area Development & Growth

It is a fundamental goal of the Society to help technical areas develop and grow to their full potential, both technically and organizationally.

Scientific autonomy

Within broader IEEE/Society polices and procedures and constraints, TCs shall have scientific autonomy in their technical activities, including such areas a conference and publication activities, e.g., selection of committees, editors, reviewers.

The society shall encourage TCs and be willing to invest financially in TCs that demonstrate exceptional initiative

The Motion passedwith 15 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 abstention.

PART 4 - INTERNAL ACTIVITIES

4.1 Publications Activities (1)

William Hamel and William Harwin gave a report on IEEE Transactions on Haptics.

MOTION (07-S-13-1): Authorize the development and promotion of the Phase II proposal to the IEEE for the Transactions on Haptics as presented.